Saturday’s Giants, Rockies lineups: Belt gets a day off

A few weeks ago, near the end of spring training, I tweeted something about Bumgarner being in the same BP group as Pence, Posey and Sandoval — and it was the pitcher who was hitting the deepest blasts. Some idiot on Twitter complained that the middle of the Giants order was weak and should be embarrassed. So, guy, if you read this, hi!!!

BumSlam. Whoa. ESPN had it at 415 feet, the seventh-longest of 15 Giants homers this season.

Hey, Team GE…do the Giants still have Arenado’s kid brother in the org? What’s his story?

ClutchUp

Dear Mr. Commish Bud:
Before you go off into the sunset, be a good guy and get the ball rolling towards 26-27 man rosters. NL pitchers with ulnar injuries and pitch count phobia only throw 6-7 Inn. now. The AL starting pitchers have advantage. If you can implement this recent replay fiasco, you can increase roster size.

#abolishanddeathtothedh

Foothills Ryan

Yes. Jonah. As far as I can tell, not swallowed by a whale. Probably playing in extended ST and maybe to AZL or S/K later.

Foothills Ryan

Pence & Sandoval – as good a time as any to get going.

Cain – it doesn’t need to be said. The time is now.

Matthew

…and David Ortiz, who is a 1/2 ball player, is lauded as a great player. Dude is a glorified softball hacker. This sport has gaps in sanity.

Meanwhile still no Stephen Drew or Kendrys Morales buyers. Mrs Drew and Mrs Morales were hoping Hubbies would have taken the 14+M.

ClutchUp

o—-o
I see you bro

Foothills Ryan

Johnson worked 2 strong innings in a loss yesterday. They were down 6-1 or so. Getting back on horse.

walt kovacs

fat boy is the one who needs the day off

Foothills Ryan

Good news coach ! Somebody picked up a glove the game after ours. No confirmation whether or not it was actually my glove. But we have a lead. Bring back Shoeless Joe.

DrLefty

I’m surprised he hasn’t gotten one, actually. Bochy’s been known to sit him a day or two when he appears to need a “mental health day.”

For that matter, with Pence hitting .160, it’s as good a time as any to break that consecutive starts streak. Give Blanco 4 ABs.

BALDHEADSLIK1

No pressure to close it out = easy inning.

Matthew

Pence has that games streak going, so I think Bochy will defer and let it be Pence’s call.

I would love to see Pablo get a break… It may be coming Sunday if he has a tough one today.

channelclemente

As you’ve no doubt noticed, his scouting report has changed. He’s seeing a lot of hard breaking stuff on the outside corner now, but it appears to me he’s still trying to pull the ball. Time to make the adjustments, bring on Bam Bam.

Sandoval might get tomorrow off. And they *have* to play Adrianza regularly or let him go. He probably won’t hit up here but they have to find out.

channelclemente

Maybe it’s just my desire to see Adrianza succeed, but Hicks just doesn’t have enough skill in the infield so far not to see him as overall, a detriment. Adrianza hitting would sure solve a lot of problems.

Matthew

CC, you certainly have the 2B Crawls scenarios mapped, my man!

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Bapah

Listen, if everyone just tells him he’s right and that he may be one of the greatest baseball minds of all time, he’d never mention it again.

channelclemente

It’s my pet hallucination, and dog gone it, I can’t think of any other way to get Hicks back on the bench, pinch hitting as opposed to insulting Jobu by his masquerade as a MLB infielder. If Bumgarner agrees, which after Hicks effort last night he might, it seems like it might be doable.

ClutchUp

Once the regular season started, Adrianza started seeing all the opposing staffs filthy secondary pitches and he has looked terrible. By terrible I also mean NORMAL. Hitting ML pitching in spring training is polar opposite to hitting ML pitching during the regular season.

channelclemente

Nice sentiment, as long as you don’t bet on it, any of it.

ClutchUp

‘cept the culture of ML ball and ESPECIALLY how the Giants handle their business. Crawford is NOT moving from shortstop.

channelclemente

Heh, a guy can hope for an epiphany on Crawford’s part. Jobu moves in mysterious ways.

Bapah

I’m a true believer. More the Gospel than Sentiment.

channelclemente

He needs 100-150 ABs to understand if he’s just leather, no wood or not. I hope this is a quick game, the local Giants LL team is on at 2:30. They have the kid with the great stuff, at 80-85 mph.